CIRCUS HARMONY: GIUBILANTE
Our annual confluence of music and circus arts is titled GIUBILANTE this year. The show will be presented in the Circus Harmony ring on the third floor of City Musuem Janaury 24, 25, 31 and February 1 with shows at 2 and 7 PM on Saturdays and 2 PM on Sundays. Get tickets here!
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Peace Through Pyramids is a title we gave to the work we started in Israel in 2007 when we first went there to work with the Jewish/Arab Galilee Circus. This year, we are thrilled to have received one of the first-ever Social Impact grants from the Regional Arts Commission to take our Peace Through Pyramids program into Ferguson. This summer, nine of our students returned to Israel to work with the Galilee Circus at the height of the conflict with Gaza. Shortly after our return, Ferguson exploded. Someone said “See, wherever you are, there’s a problem.” My answer is “Wherever there is a ‘them’ and an ‘us’ there is a problem.”
This little circus show is about a boy who loses his cat in a garden. The boy is scared of the garden creatures— the frogs, bees, other winged insects and even the birds. The cat realizes how fun and interesting they are and her natural openness and curiosity leads her to have fun and learn new things with them. Finally, when the boy stops running away from them or trying to hurt them, he finds they really are amazing, interesting and fun. He finds he enjoys some of the same activities they do— in this case, acrobatic and dance. He sees exactly what we hope all the participants in our Peace Through Pyramids programs and all people everywhere would see: we are more alike than different and if we concentrate on what unites us instead of what divides us, we can create a miraculous world. We hope you will join us in this little garden we have created in our tiny circus ring on the third floor of the incredible City Museum. We welcome you here in the hopes that you see what is possible as you watch children aged six to nineteen from all different backgrounds and neighborhoods work together, support each other, trust and be responsible for each other as they present the sometimes seemingly impossible, thrilling, hilarious, and heartwarming circus show that we have titled, Giubilante, a musical term meaning ‘exultant’ or ‘jubilant’. We hope you feel that way when you leave and that the next time you are scared by someone else, want to run away from someone or push them away, you look a little closer. You just may find something wonderful that will surprise you and bring you joy.